Fitness Tracker Announces 79kg Weight Loss After Bear Attack
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Great run You lost 79 kg
Overview
This is a single-panel hand-drawn dark humor cartoon. It is set at the edge of a forest next to a paved running path. In the background, a large brown bear sits with its back turned against a tree, positioned next to the exposed legs and sneakers of a human runner, implying the human was attacked and consumed by the bear. A single blood-stained running shoe lies discarded on the forest floor nearby. In the foreground, the severed arm of the human victim rests on the path, wearing a fitness tracker watch. The fitness tracker displays a notification in a speech bubble that reads 'Great run You lost 79 kg'. The joke derives from the absurdity of the tracker treating the loss of the rest of the human's body as positive weight loss from exercise, completely ignoring the fatal bear attack context. The artist's signature 'oottitsch' is visible in the bottom right corner.
Origin notes
This original cartoon was created by artist oottitsch, and was later reposted as a meme on the Reddit r/meme subreddit with the original title 'Well well well'. It circulates online as a dark humor meme mocking overly perky, context-ignorant notifications from fitness tracking devices.